NATCHEZ — If things on your computer look a little different today, don’t rub your eyes in disbelief. We’ve merely given our website a slight makeover.

Underneath the new hairstyle and makeup is the same local news coverage you’ve always found here.

We’ve changed the look and feel of natchezdemocrat.com to allow the site to better serve our changing digital readership.

Over the past few years, we’ve seen a significant increase in readers using mobile devices such as smartphones to access news articles.

To aid with that, we’ve redesign the web site to be more mobile-friendly as well as to hopefully speed up load times on both mobile and desktop computers.

Despite our efforts to make the conversion seamless, such plans almost always experience a few hiccups, so we thank you in advance for your patience, and we ask that you let us know if you see anything that looks amiss or if you find something that doesn’t work as you would expect. Just send us an e-mail to: webmaster@natchezdemocrat.com